The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice (Body, Commodity, Text)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 1996
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice (Body, Commodity, Text)
- Author
- Weiss, Brad
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822317222
- ISBN 13
- 9780822317227
- Item weight
- 18 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x9
- Series
- Book 1 of 14: Body, commodity, text
- Seller catalogs
- Anthropology
Grounded in a richly detailed ethnography of Haya practice, Weiss's analysis considers the symbolic qualities and values embedded in goods and transactions across a wide range of cultural activity: agricultural practice and food preparation, the body's experience of epidemic disease from AIDS to the infant affliction of "plastic teeth," and long-standing forms of social movement and migration. Weiss emphasizes how Haya images of consumption describe the relationship between their local community and the global economy. Throughout, he demonstrates that particular commodities and more general market processes are always material and meaningful forces with the potential for creativity as well as disruption in Haya social life. By calling attention to the productive dimensions of this spatial and temporal world, his work highlights the importance of human agency in not only the Haya but any sociocultural order.
Offering a significant contribution to the anthropological theories of practice, embodiment, and agency, and enriching our understanding of the lives of a rural African people, The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World will interest historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars of cultural studies.
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About the Author
Brad Weiss is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary.
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